snowblindrpg | [network] @featherydouche; video; unsafe medical experiments for fun and profit; morning 190 [open]

[No text today! Instead, the viewers of Norfinbury get a video showing a weird orange bird guy filmed from inside a house. In addition to the shades, behind which a faint orange glow is visible, he's got on the standard peacoat people receive here. It's the same violent shade of orange as the rest of him.]

Hey. A bunch of you already know by now, but the name's Davesprite, and I'm this thing called a sprite and I'm part crow.

[He caws demonstratively.]

But I'm posting this because House and I just did some experiments about the whole nonhuman thing yesterday. See, some people were positing that maybe I only look weird because of distorted perceptions and junk, so we wanted to test basically if I'm the way I should be or not.

Thing one, I've got a hole through the middle of my chest where my sword used to go, because sprites are weird. Don't worry about it. Watson told me how normal objects found here go right through anomalies, but stuff coated in rubble dust hits them. So he and Sherlock wanted me to try to stick some rubble in my sword hole. Spoilers, it worked.

Thing two, my blood's bright yellow like somebody cracked a glowstick open, and it doesn't look like a human's under a microscope. Since the admin said my bloodtype's been "adjusted", House wanted to inject some of it into himself to see if he could. And that worked too.

If you want to go and lecture us about how that was dangerous and stupid and we could have gotten ourselves killed: Yeah, I know, but too late. Sometimes you gotta be stupid to get science done. And now we've confirmed that looking nonhuman is still real and not just some illusion cast on our senses via the nanomachines, and that regular humans can accept "adjusted" blood with the right type.

Thing three's got nothing to do with the experiments, but House wanted me to share that he found an SD card back on day 183 with Andromeda and Winter talking some more. If you saw the post I made about the card I found a while back, the one where they were talking about the cult? It sounds like this one relates to that.

[Here at the end Davesprite links a few files. First are video recordings of him and House performing the experiments described above. His blood in the relevant experiment is indeed a yellow as he said and slightly luminescent. Along with this he includes a couple photos of his blood taken under a microscope. The blood cells aren't human or avian, but a shape that looks somewhere between both.]

[Next, he includes the audio file of Winter and Andromeda talking.]

(OOC: Replies may come from either Davesprite or House!)

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It's okay.

No clue. The Joker got away from him, and a couple of days later he just... stopped sending updates. He was alone.

[ Anything could have gotten him. And that scares the hell out of her. He's supposed to be this big scary force of nature, the smartest guy in this damned place and the best prepared to survive.

How is she supposed to manage if Batman couldn't do it? ]

[He makes a low, considering sound. He's not back yet, or if he is, he hasn't heard from him. He takes it Steph hasn't either from how she phrases it.]

Maybe an anomaly. Or he could have been caught outside, but... Do you think he would have sent a message if he was? You know him better than me.

Edited (different icon) 2016-12-20 03:59 (UTC)

He would have sent a message. To me, at least, saying where he was and what he had planned. Whatever happened, he wasn't expecting it.

Okay, yeah, probably an anomaly. Or something else real sudden like that. I'm sorry, Steph.

[He has no idea what their actual relation is, but still.]

You want to talk about something else again?

[He won't make her dwell longer if she doesn't want to.]

I... [ She wants to be tough enough to say she doesn't care.

She lets out a defeated breath. ]

Yeah. Yeah, I do.

Tell me about music you miss. I got no idea what the music scene is like in the future, and that Doctor Strange guy won't sing anything for me, so I've been hankering for anything at all that's not Andersen's freaky voice singing nursery rhymes for Ed. And even if the world ended back in '09, we still had the internet and I had my old equipment to remix shit with. My ears are downright neglected in this town, Steph. Help me out.

[There, completely unconnected and something both lighthearted and interesting enough for him to get involved in.]

Music, huh?

[ She needs a minute to make her mind start working on something other than how horrible Norfinbury is. ]

I'm not really into pop music, but I know all the words. You know how it goes. Adele put out a new album. Beyonce, of course. One Direction, Nicki Minaj. Justin Bieber is finally starting to fade from the spotlight.

[A beat.]

I haven't even heard of like half of those.

[What's a Minaj?]

Do any of them rap?

Nicki Minaj does.

[!! He perks up visibly.]

Do you know any of her lyrics? Can you rap them for me?

[Pls pls pls pls.]

Oh lord. [ She doesn't. Really rap. She is a soft rock kinda girl. ]

Okay.

This one is for the boys with the booming system
Top down, AC with the cooling system
When he come up in the club, he be blazin' up
Got stacks on deck like he savin' up
And he ill, he real, he might got a deal
He pop bottles and he got the right kind of bill
He cold, he dope, he might sell coke
He always in the air, but he never fly coach

[Davesprite looks absolutely delighted. Is it the same professional quality Nicki herself would deliver? Nah, probably not, especially if rap's not Steph's thing. But it's way more than he's used to and it's from a future where humanity isn't dead, so that's cool as shit.]

Keep going, keep going!

[ It would be better if she was more dedicated. ]

I don't know any of the rest of it!

Steph. Steph. Why you gotta disappoint me like that?

[He still looks pretty cheerful, though.]

Seriously, thanks. Nobody raps around here. My ears cry themselves to sleep every night for missing it.

Yeah, I don't either. Sorry man. You're going to have to find someone who actually likes rap.

At least before this I had the internet. I spent three years being the only rap fan out of the people I was with, but so long as I had that all the long gone saints of rhyme could still slam their beats straight into my ears. The admin's holding out on us, Steph. We should start a riot.

Is that not what we've done? I mean, we did kill each other so often that the Admin stopped offering medical assistance.

[The amusement fades off his face pretty quick.]

Is that what happened? People die around here often enough without getting killed first.

It was implied. This place has the unfortunate habit of bringing in serial killers.

So the admin punishes us instead of adjusting the recruitment parameters. Don't know why I didn't expect it.

Considering we've been told there are no parameters? Not surprising.

Figures.

[And there's no real point in asking beyond that. They've discussed the old info plenty, and there's just not enough to know what they're here for yet.]

But hey, I should probably get to traveling soon. I've got a way to go and I want to make sure I can meet up with some people. Stay safe, Steph.

Alright. Take care of yourself, Davesprite.

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